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Vendor Managed Inventory

nospam@example.com (administrator) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:52:42 -0400

Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is a commonly used term in companies that distribute products in the consumer goods and retail space. Often software vendors claim to support vendor managed inventory requirements simply through defining a separate ‘warehouse’ for inventory that is stored at the customer’s facilities. This answer however, only addresses part of the challenge that manufacturers and distributors face when trying to maintain vendor managed inventory programs.

Read more at the Advanced Distribution Software Blog.

Life Sciences Business Challenges: What's Your Challenge?

nospam@example.com (administrator) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:30:22 -0400

Merit Solutions has a ten year, successful track record of providing software solutions to Life Sciences companies. No matter what your specific business challenges may be, MAXLife for Microsoft Dynamics AX can help you overcome them in order to sustain profitability and growth.

What Is Your Business Challenge?

Is your challenge unique to your business? If so, contact Merit Solutions today at 630-614-7133 to find out how MAXLife can help your Life Sciences organization successfully mitigate your pains.

Merit Solutions Announces the Availability of Life Sciences Software for Microsoft Dynamics AX

nospam@example.com (administrator) — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:51:46 -0400

From the MAXLife Life Matters Blog.

Merit Solutions, Inc., a leading Microsoft Gold Certified and Presidents Club Partner, is pleased to announce today the general availability of MAXLife software for Microsoft Dynamics AX for English, French, Spanish and German language markets. For medium enterprise and large, global companies that manufacture, distribute and manage life sciences products, MAXLife for Microsoft Dynamics AX provides an enterprise wide business software solution to help companies gain insight and increase business performance. MAXLife enables life sciences organizations to connect with their business partners and customers, optimize business processes, and gain competitive advantages, while simplifying compliance processes mandated by the FDA, customers, and other regulatory agencies.

MAXLife (http://www.maxlifesoftware.com) software extends the already strong core Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP and Advanced Distribution software to meet specific requirements for Life Sciences companies, including:

Corrective Action Preventive Action Resolution / Incident Tracking

MAXLife Corrective Action Preventive Action (CAPA) enables increased control and assuredness for how your organization captures, tracks and manages incidents, adverse events and non-conformances. With MAXLife, companies can generate a Corrective Action or Preventive Action request that routes through review, root cause, corrective action taken, and verification stages. This Corrective Action tracking software generates multiple reports automatically, providing an effective mechanism for tracking the source and costs of incidents.

Cost of Quality Management

MAXLife Cost of Quality enables critical tracking, reporting and analysis of costs related to performing quality processes across the organization. With MAXLife, companies have visibility on their complete product costs, including important quality processes, and are able to make better decisions, more timely. Life Sciences companies can focus on quality management initiatives as a source of competitive advantage while responding to the market pressures to both reduce the cost of quality and improve finished product quality.

ePedigree Tracking

Every drug manufacturer is required to serialize drug products at the item, case, and pallet level to support the ability to generate an electronic pedigree (ePedigree) document. This electronic document is required to track, trace and authenticate the product from the time it is initially sold to a distributor all the way through the supply chain to the point of distribution. MAXLife simplifies and accelerates the ePedigree process from receiving through shipment, simplifying compliance with government regulations.

Microsoft Part 11 SharePoint Document Management

MAXLife extends the capabilities of Microsoft SharePoint for document management and quality control solutions for life sciences companies. The software helps address the regulatory requirements of FDA 21 CFR Part 11, as well as SOP management, clinical document management and a range of quality functions including CAPA, audits management, non-conformance and complaint management.

About MAXLife for Microsoft Dynamics AX

Built on the .Net architecture of Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft SharePoint, MAXLife software increases your visibility into product performance, resulting in better decisions and increased revenues and profits. The software enables quality control and quality assurance processes to work together as part of the business system, and to be transparently available for reviewing and reporting. With MAXLife software for Microsoft Dynamics AX, you can track product quality, proactively see and respond to manufacturing variability, meet GxP, Sarbanes Oxley, and 21 CFR Part 11 and Part 820 requirements, and simplify computer systems validation.

View a MAXLife for Microsoft Dynamics AX Demo.

About Merit Solutions, Inc.

Merit Solutions is a leading Microsoft Dynamics business consulting and software development firm helping clients plan their technology investments, design solutions, and implement projects that improve business performance and drive a competitive advantage. We deliver end-to-end solutions that enable our clients to streamline processes, reduce costs, and facilitate business growth.

Merit Solutions is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, a 2009 Microsoft Dynamics President Club member, and has been recognized in the past as a Microsoft Excellence Partner for working successfully and collaboratively with customers and partners across the world.

MAXLife Software for Medical Device Manufacturing

nospam@example.com (administrator) — Thu, 06 May 2010 09:55:41 -0400

(From the new MAXLife "Life Matters" blog.)

An end-to-end ERP application, MAXLife integrates planning and manufacturing processes with order management to provide available-to-promise and capable-to-promise processing, fully-integrated quality testing and quality control, online quoting and conversion to orders, kitting and assembly, lot and serial number traceability, and warranty and recall management. MAXLife is a powerful, yet flexible, business software solution that provides the scalability you need to grow your company profitably while producing the safest products possible. With MAXLife, Medical Device manufacturers can streamline their most common business process needs, including:

Lot Traceability
FDA 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance
Inventory Management
Improved Visibility
Lead Time Improvement
Waste Reduction
... and more!

Efficient Discrete Manufacturing

Designed for mid-size and larger companies, MAXLife is a global, multi-language, and multicurrency enterprise resource planning solution designed with medical device manufacturers in mind. Its core strengths are in manufacturing, order processing, and distribution, but includes applications for financials, CRM, SCM, human resources, project management and analytics. Because Microsoft Dynamics AX integrates with widely-familiar Microsoft products such as Microsoft SQL Server, BizTalk Server, Exchange, Office, and Window, employees can work with the tools they are likely to be already familiar with, lowering training costs.

FDA Compliance

MAXLife helps Medical Device companies demonstrate that they meet the processing, safety and tracking standards required by law. The software, documentation and services provided by Merit Solutions can help reduce the time and effort required to maintain FDA compliance by capturing and maintaining product information from each manufacturer.

Learn more about Life Sciences Software for Microsoft Dynamics AX.

MAXLife: Life Sciences Software for Microsoft Dynamics AX

nospam@example.com (administrator) — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:24:28 -0400

Merit Solutions, Inc., a leading Microsoft Gold Certified and Presidents Club Partner, is pleased to announce today the release of MAXLife software for Microsoft Dynamics AX. For medium enterprise and large global life sciences companies, MAXLife for Microsoft Dynamics AX provides a complete, enterprise wide business software solution designed to help organizations gain insights and increase performance. MAXLife enables life sciences organizations to connect with their business partners and customers, optimize business processes, and gain competitive advantages, while simplifying compliance processes mandated by the FDA, customers, and other regulatory agencies.

Unlike Oracle or SAP, MAXLife for Microsoft Dynamics AX fits with your existing Microsoft systems, is familiar to use and easier to deploy, and has a lower total cost of ownership.

MAXLife (www.maxlifesoftware.com) software extends the already strong core Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP and Advanced Distribution software to meet specific requirements for Life Sciences companies, including:

Increased Materials Management, Control, and Traceability
CAPA Tracking and Resolution
SharePoint Part 11 Document Management and Control
Electronic Signatures
Digital Signatures
Contracts / Charge backs
ePedigree Tracking for Distribution Compliance
21 CFR Part 11 Compliance
21 CFR Part 820 Quality Management Compliance
Cost of Quality Insight and Management

Bill Burke, President and Chief Executive Office of Merit Solutions, Inc., offered this to say: “Merit Solutions has a ten year, successful track record of providing software solutions to Life Sciences companies. With MAXLife for Microsoft Dynamics AX, we are providing medium and large enterprise Life Sciences companies the choice to leverage the benefits of the Microsoft platform. These companies now have the opportunity to give their employees a system that is more familiar to use, easier to deploy, and has a lower total cost of ownership than the business systems choices they have had in the past.”

Merit Solutions will be demonstrating MAXLife for Microsoft Dynamics AX at Microsoft Convergence 2010 next week in Atlanta. Stop by Booth #1319 for more information.

Merit Solutions Products Compatible with Windows 7

nospam@example.com (administrator) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:19:10 -0500

Merit Solutions is proud to announce that our Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 applications are compatible with Windows 7. These applications include:

Advanced Lot Management (ALM) - Automatic lot tracking and lot control to streamline your compliance. Track lot information in key stages of inventory processing such as Manufacturing Order Receipt and Inventory Adjustments. ALM works with Dynamics GP Inventory—Sales Order, Purchasing Order and Manufacturing Order Processing.
Advanced Serial Management (ASM) - Track serialized information completely and maintain compliance automatically. Control serialized items with the addition of four status assignments: Hold, Approved, Quarantined and Rejected.
Enterprise Quality Management (EQM) - Manage your quality control data effectively while lowering costs with EQM. Track test results throughout the life cycle of a process and implement and activate controls based on test results.
Enhanced Security - Increases Microsoft Dynamics GP system security control while reducing management of user access based on password and login characteristics. Enhanced Security enables strong passwords with reset intervals, and provides login control expiration dates established at the system and user class level.
Validation Templates - Provide predefined tests and documentation for Microsoft Dynamics GP system flows which support common standard operating procedures. Adhere to data validation, security and process integrity requirements.

See Merit Solutions' products in the Windows 7 Compatibility Center.

Dynamics AX 2009 Snap-In: Vendors Journal

nospam@example.com (administrator) — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:58:47 -0500

Merit Solutions is proud to announce the development of the Vendors Journal Snap-In for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. A leading Microsoft Gold Certified IT consultancy and software development firm specializing in Microsoft Dynamics, Merit Solutions will launch the Dynamics AX 2009 Vendors Journal at Microsoft Convergence 2009 Booth #840.

Today’s business environment requires more on-site visits and time spent out of the office in meetings, and, therefore, off of the network. To optimize the time spent at these meetings, it is essential for your employees to know as much as possible about the history of the relationship and the status of all on-going transactions. Additionally, any commitments made during the meeting need to be accurately recorded for future reference.

The Vendors Journal Snap-In allows an employee to quickly view and capture a complete view of your organization’s relationship with a vendor from data within the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 system. This data is available to be taken to a meeting in order to view, add to or edit that data all while off of the network. Once back on the company network, the employee can easily update the changes into Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. The ability to work offline provides your employees many benefits:

Increase the productivity of meetings, providing access to important information when needed.
Increase the accuracy of your records by updating them while offline.
Minimize duplication of effort and possible errors in data entry by uploading changes when online.

The Vendors Journal Snap-In functions by capturing the vendor information in a Microsoft Office InfoPath® 2007 form that pulls the data from Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. This gives you the ability to capture critical data from the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 system and then refer to it from within the Office environment whenever offline. Make edits to the profile, and easily update all changes once back in the office.

Stop by Convergence Booth #840 to be one of the first to see the Vendors Journal in action. Be sure to ask our representatives how you can get a copy of the Vendors Journal FREE.

Contact Merit Solutions to request a meeting at Convergence.

About Merit Solutions

Founded in 1999, Merit Solutions, Inc. is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a leading provider of Microsoft Dynamics and custom application solutions. Based in the western Chicago suburb of Wheaton, IL, Merit Solutions is a Certified Microsoft Solution Developer, offering Microsoft Dynamics AX Development services to companies in need of customized software.

http://www.meritsolutions.com/axsnap/

Industry Specific ERP Software Solutions

nospam@example.com (administrator) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:10:00 -0400

Merit Solutions provides end-to-end, industry-specific software solutions that can address unique business processes by removing gaps in functionality provided by out-of-the-box applications. Our software modules include: Manufacturing Software Applications, Life Sciences Software Applications, Quality and Control Software Applications, and Regulatory Compliance Software Applications (including Sarbanes-Oxley requirements).

View our industry landing page for software solutions for your industry.

Microsoft Dynamics for Aerospace and Defense

nospam@example.com (administrator) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:18:00 -0400

Are you an Aerospace and Defense Manufacturer looking to manufacture the safest, highest-quality products while providing the highest level of service to your customers. To gain and sustain a competitive advantage over your competition, you must be able to do all of this on time, within budget, and to stringent customer specifications.

Merit Solutions' VECTOR Series Quality Management Suite, along with Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions, gives your company the ability to:

Automatically Maintain Compliance (FAA, ISO9001, AS9100)
Track lot / serialized information completely (and accurately)
Track test results throughout a process life cycle and activate controls based on test results

Remember: Performance = Attitude + Power

Visit the new Aerospace and Defense ERP software solutions site!

Advanced Lot Management Demo Online

nospam@example.com (administrator) — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:20:55 -0400

Online demos are now available for Merit Solutions' Advanced Lot Management (ALM) Module:

Advanced Lot Management (ALM) Demo
Auto Lot Number Generator within ALM
Quality Management Suite
- Enterprise Quality Management (EQM)
- Advanced Lot Management

Quality Management Webcast Recap

nospam@example.com (administrator) — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:44:00 -0400

We would like to thank everyone that was able to attend our Quality Management Webcast. We have now placed the video on our site, and it can be accessed by registering at the Merit Solutions' Quality Management Webcast Request page.

Have any questions regarding the webcast or Merit Solutions Quality Management Applications? Please leave a comment below!

FREE Quality Management Demo

nospam@example.com (administrator) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:49:25 -0400

Merit Solutions, Inc. -

Join us on Thursday, April 24, from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. (EST) to learn how the latest version of Merit's Quality Management Suite (Enterprise Quality Management, Advanced Lot Management, Advanced Serial Management) helps eradicate quality control and compliance business challenges:

Operating efficiently while controlling restricted materials
Tracking test results throughout a process lifecycle
Improving performance through planning
Managing entire production process

Sign up for this FREE webinar and learn how Merit Solutions' Quality Management Applications assist Dynamics GP users to remain competitive on quality compliance issues.

Quality Management Suite

nospam@example.com (administrator) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:07:00 -0500

Gain a true competitive advantage by continuously raising the bar on quality with Merit Solutions' Quality Management Suite of Applications:

Advanced Lot Management expands your ability to operate efficiently while controlling restricted materials within Microsoft Dynamics™ GP. Increase operating control, track all lot information completely, and automatically maintain compliance with FDA requirements.

Advanced Serial Management increases your ability to operate efficiently while controlling restricted materials within Microsoft Dynamics™ GP. Track serialized information completely and maintain compliance automatically.

Enterprise Quality Management (EQM) is for organizations who desire to compete on quality. Merit EQM provides the ability to track test results throughout the life cycle of a process and to activate controls based on test results.

Visit our Quality Management Suite online for more information. For on online demo of these applications, click here.

Manufacturing Lunch and Learn at Convergence

nospam@example.com (administrator) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:21:53 -0500

Merit Solutions, Inc.

Are you or your clients a manufacturing firm that competes on quality? Join us and learn how the latest version of Merit's Manufacturing Suite of Applications (Enterprise Quality Management, Advanced Lot Management, Advanced Serial Management) can assist your firm in remaining competetive on quality and compliance issues:

Operating efficiently while controlling restricted materials
Tracking test results throughout a product lifecycle
Improving performance through planning
Managing entire production processes

Don't miss this groundbreaking overview of how Merit's Manufacturing suite can help Microsoft Dynamics GP Manufacturing users to eradicate quality control and compliance challenges. This session takes place on Wednesday, March 12 from 12:30 - 1:20 at the Peabody Hotel (across the street from the Orange County Convention Center).

Manufacturing Suite Overview (Lunch) at Convergence

nospam@example.com (administrator) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:10:00 -0500

Merit Solutions, Inc -

Join us for lunch on Wednesday, March 12 from 12:30 - 1:20 at the Peabody Hotel for an Application Overview of the Merit Manufacturing Suite. Learn how to eradicate quality control and compliance business challenges.

Are you or your clients a manufacturing firm that competes on quality? If so, join us during lunch and learn how this Manufacturing Suite of applications can assist your firm in remaining competitive on quality and compliance issues:

Operating efficiently while controlling restricted materials
Tracking test results throughout a process lifecycle
Improving performance through planning
Managing entire production processes

Date: Wednesday, March 12

Location: Sweetwater Room, Peabody Hotel

Time: 12:30 - 1:20